This Saturday, I'm going on a five mile run to raise money for the Gathering Inn, which is a nonprofit organization that supports homeless people in Placer County. The nonprofit is made up of 60 churches in Placer County. Every night, one of the churches opens up their building, providing homeless people with hot meals, showers, clothes, a place to spend the night, and many different self enhancement services designed to help them get back on their feet again. Their website has some statistics about homelessness in Placer County:
41% are adult males
32% are adult females
23% are children
20% self report a substance abuse illness
17% increase in foster age youth
80% have been unemployed within the last 12 months
40% self report a mental illness
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